Anthony Bryan Hack pleads guilty to speeding in court

A former CFMEU organiser was caught speeding less than a week into a good driving behaviour period.

Anthony Bryan Hack (right) leaves Tweed Heads Courthouse on Monday.

A union organiser has fronted court after his speeding breached a good driving behaviour period.

Anthony Bryan Hack, 40, pleaded guilty in Tweed Heads Local Court on Monday to speeding.

According to court papers, Hack was caught doing 68 in a 50 zone on Big River Way, Ulmarra, on May 11.

He was already subject to a driving good behaviour period which had started six days before he was caught and was set to run until May, 2022.

Court documents show Hack has 14 speeding offences on his record.

Defence lawyer Karl Brandon told the court his client had been required to do a lot of driving when he started work with the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union in 2017 and had travelled up to 16,000km in a year.

Mr Brandon said Hack began accumulating demerit points when he started driving regularly for work.

He said his client had completed a traffic offenders program and appreciated his consistent speeding could lead to consequences for other drivers.

Mr Brandon said the Suffolk Park man, who now worked for the National Tertiary Education Union, had not committed any other speeding offences since the one before the court, but acknowledged it breached his good driving behaviour period.

Magistrate Geoff Dunlevy reminded Hack speeding was a principle cause of death on the roads.

He sentenced him to a 12 month conditional release order with no conviction.